J. Michael Straczynski

Writer and Producer for TV series, Feature Films, Comicsa & Author of "Becoming Superman"

Becoming Superman Lib/E: My Journey from Poverty to Hollywood

Donna Tartt

Pulitzer Prize Award-Winning Author of "The Secret History," "The Little Friend" & "The Goldfinch"

Shonda Rhimes

Executive Producer, Screenwriter, & Author

Shonda Rhimes Reveals SHOCKING Method Behind Her Creative ...

Spike Lee

Academy Award-Winning Writer, Producer, Actor & Director; Best Known for "BlacKkKlansman" & "Malcolm X"

Angela Bassett

Award-Winning Actress & Co-Founder of Bassett/Vance Productions

James Lapine

Award-Winning Playwright, Director, and Screenwriter; Pulitzer Prize-Winner for "Sunday in the Park with George"; NYT Bestselling Author

Putting It Together: How Stephen Sondheim and I Created "Sunday in the Park with George"

Xochitl Gonzalez

Cultural Critic, Producer, Screenwriter & New York Times Best-Selling Author of "Olga Dies Dreaming"

Adam Lorenzo

TV & Film Screenwriter; Comedy Writer for "Everybody Loves Raymond" & SNL

Everybody Loves Raymond, Everybody Hates Chris

Graeme Simsion

Australian Author, Screenwriter, Playwright & Data Modeler

David Baddiel

Comedian, Author, Screenwriter & Television Presenter

Howard Michael Gould

Author of the Charlie Waldo Novels, Screenwriter, Producer, Director & Playwright

Patrick DeWitt

Novelist, Short Story Writer & Screenwriter

Brenda Peynado

Dominican American Fiction Writer

Bess Kalb

Emmy-Nominated Writer for Jimmy Kimmel Live; 2016 WGA Award-Winner; Writer for Numerous Emmy and Academy Awards Shows; Author of "Nobody Will Tell You This But Me"

Nina Krstic

Award Winning Director & Producer

Sarah Watson

Creator of the Hit TV Show "The Bold Type"; Author of "Most Likely"

Nnedi Okorafor

International Award-Winning Fantasy & Science Fiction Author

Writing for a Broken World: A Conversation with Nnedi Okorafor

Erin Lee Carr

Documentary Director, Producer & Author of "All That You Leave Behind"

George Pelecanos

Author, Independent Flim Producer & Television Writer

Mark Dery

Cultural Critic & Author of "I Must Not Think Bad Thoughts"

Attica Locke

Writer & Producer of Fox's "Empire"

Caroline Kepnes

New York Times Best-Selling Author, Author of of the Netflix Television Series Adaptation "You"

Emma Donoghue

Playwright, Literary Historian & Novelist Known for "Hood" and "Room"

Adam Horowitz

Screenwriter & Producer Known for "Lost" & "Once Upon a Time"

Diane Guerrero

Immigration Reform Activist & Actress Known for "Orange is the New Black" & "Jane The Virgin"

Stanley Nelson Jr.

Emmy Award-Winning Documentary Filmmaker Known for "Freedom Summer" and "Attica"

Ryan Murphy

Writer, Producer

Dee Snider

Daniel "Dee" Snider is an American singer-songwriter, screenwriter, radio personality, and actor.

Will Smith

Actor, Producer, Entrepreneur, Philanthropist & Author

Lucy Alibar

The movie that Alibar cowrote, Beasts of the Southern Wild, won the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival in Utah; at Cannes in May, where it was given a 15-minute standing ovation, it scored the Camra dOr prize for best first feature.